Word: sorrowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shock and sorrow were profound last month when Najarian was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on 18 felony counts related to his work. Najarian, 67, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of offenses ranging from embezzlement and income-tax evasion to conspiring to deceive the Food and Drug Administration. "When I heard the news," said Beverly Massegee of Ranger, Texas, who credits Najarian with saving her daughter's life, "I sobbed...
...WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT/ DEATH HAD undone so many ." wrote Dante of his descent into the inferno. What was most remarkable, in the aftermath of Oklahoma's sorrow, was that the people were not undone; the sturdy cliches about Midwestern fortitude came to life as an entire city refused to buckle in grief. "We hate and despise the people who did it," said Senior District Judge Fred Daugherty, who survived the blast in his courthouse office next door to the federal building. "But we're a strong and simple folk. We'll rebuild and roll with this thing...
Over the years, the Jernigan family in Raleigh, North Carolina, has tried to help friends cope with sorrow, with sickness, the death of a child, the draining of hope. They know what it's like to fall on their knees and scream in prayer, listening for an answer and hearing only an echo. But they will also talk about miracles and how they can happen, not just long ago but at any time. Their miracle is named Elizabeth...
...wife Lula have been exiles from Georgia. They have lived in Berlin, and will soon move to Belgium, where he will become composer in residence for the Antwerp Royal Orchestra. Yet Georgia is never far from his thoughts: one of his most recent works is called Trauerfarbenesland ("The Sorrow-Colored Land"). "I can't characterize my music as religious, although religious music is very close and dear to me," says Kancheli, a devout Orthodox Christian. "When a person goes into a church, synagogue or mosque where there's no service going on, there's a special kind of silence...
...from way back. The book says, `` `Please take that off her,' Denise Brown told the mortician, indicating the pasty dark red lipstick he had applied to Nicole's mouth. All the Brown sisters huddled around as the mortician did as he was told With a little sigh whose understated sorrow covered a lifetime of closeness, Denise handed Nicole's clear lip gloss to the mortician. Then she signaled for the viewing-room doors to be opened.'' A little later, as the casket goes down into the earth, Weller has O.J. coming on to a friend of Nicole...